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You can claim land for your base on Arrakis in survival MMO Dune: Awakening, but you’ll have to pay the Emperor for it

Since its reveal back in 2022, we’ve gradually been learning more about Dune: Awakening, Funcom’s upcoming survival MMO set on a “vast and seamless Arrakis.” Along with a new gameplay trailer released today that you can watch above, PC Gamer editor Wes Fenlon got the chance to chat with Funcom’s Joel Bylos, the MMO’s creative…

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Get back in the war: Helldivers 2 daily orders have returned, and earlier than announced

I do not want to die in a bug-infested hellscape for nothing. If I’m going to get murdered over and over again in Helldivers 2, I better be getting a big stack of medals out of it. Such rewards haven’t exactly been pouring in, however, since one of the biggest sources, the daily personal orders,…

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‘Not to interrupt, but they just laid us all off’: Unionised YouTube workers in Texas are told in the middle of a live City Council meeting that they don’t have jobs anymore

YouTube Music contractors were informed mid-speech, during a publicly-recorded and broadcast meeting with the City Council of Austin, Texas that they’d just lost their jobs.  “To be supported by the city of Austin, and also our allies in the labour community—[it] gives us the motivation to keep this fight going,” says Jack Benedict as he…

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Switch emulator Yuzu is dead: abruptly settles lawsuit with Nintendo for $2.4 million in an enormous blow to console emulation

Last week Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Switch emulator Yuzu, blaming the emulator for mass piracy of 2023’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and declaring “there is no lawful way to use Yuzu to play Nintendo Switch games.” The developers of Yuzu hired a lawyer, seemingly setting the suit up for the…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 5

Turn your daily Wordle game around in an instant with our help. Use our tips to bring the best out of every guess, or give your own techniques some guidance with a special clue for the March 5 (990) puzzle. Still having trouble? Then click your way to today’s Wordle answer, and enjoy your win….

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Tribes 3: Rivals hits early access next week promising ‘rebirth’ for the exquisite fusion of skiing fast with a flag and explosive frisbees

If you want to know what I think of Tribes, I reviewed the last entry in the series (2012’s free-to-play Tribes: Ascend) for Eurogamer and it’s one of the few games I’ve ever given a 10. God that game was good, though, sadly, it didn’t quite stick the landing with enough players to survive: Ascend…

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Steam’s latest big sale has Blasphemous at 75% off, which is enough to make me take the Lord’s name in metroidvania

In this world, nothing is certain except death, taxes, and Steam rolling out a terrific sale every time I’m trying to save a few pennies. Cue Steam’s Metroidvania Fusion sale, which offers up some terrific deals on some of the best genre mashups around. There’s up to 75% off on various games, and some of…

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Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra taken offline as collateral damage in Yuzu lawsuit settlement

The developers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu entered a surprise settlement with Nintendo on Monday, agreeing to pay the game company $2.4 million in damages and cease development and distribution of the emulator. Now, as a result of that settlement, Citra—a 3DS emulator that shared developers with Yuzu—has also been taken offline. The Citra Twitter…

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The outstanding Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a 94%-rated game with over 22K ‘Very Positive’ reviews, is now cheaper than a cup of coffee

Now, 13 years after Eidos-Montréal dropped its 2011 Deus Ex reboot, Human Revolution, my appreciation for just how good this cyberpunk immersive sim is has remained undiminished with each passing year, as I’m sure it has done with countless other PC gamers around the world.  With Human Revolution Eidos-Montréal decided to operate in the same…

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Group that claimed it stole data from Epic admits it didn’t happen, Epic says the whole thing was ‘a scam’

Following a report last week of a ransomware attack on Epic Games that allegedly made off with nearly 200GB of data, Epic now says the whole thing was in fact “a scam“—and so does the group that claimed credit for it in the first place. The attack, reported on February 28 by Cyber Daily, was…

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