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10 essential boomer shooters that every FPS fan should play

(Image credit: Indefatigable) Call them what you like: retro FPS games, your dad’s shooters, boomshoots, or 3D interactive first-person combat software titles for personal computer, we all know what this niche within the shooter market provides: a heady blend of purity, nostalgia and above all, incredible gunfeel. It’s a niche that developed during the 2010s

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Survival-stealth sequel Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone hit its Kickstarter goal in four days

KICKSTARTER LAUNCH TRAILER – Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone – YouTube Watch On 2021’s Chernobylite was a survival-stealth FPS set in the Zone of Alienation, only a version of the Zone where the laws of physics had been broken and a whole lot of people with guns moved in. The obvious similarities to STALKER ended at

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Bethesda intended Starfield to be more violent, including ‘meat caps’ for beheaded astronauts, but the gore was toned down for technical reasons and because it ‘didn’t fit thematically’

For all this, it’s worth remembering that Starfield is a decent game overall, one that, according to PCG’s mag editor Robert, is significantly more fun now that it supports mods. Indeed, there’s at least one gore mod available for Starfield already, so if the lack of gibs in Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG was ever a problem

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I felt goodwill and hope for the future seeing Cyberlich and the Death Cult of Labor, an FPS that’s 60% HUD and looks like an Adult Swim cartoon where you smoke ‘deepweed’ to restore your health and blow clouds that spell out ‘doink’ and ‘loud’

Indie developer Polyhedra Games just has a single 30-second YouTube video and a Steam page showing off its upcoming FPS, Cyberlich and the Death Cult of Labor, but man, does it make an impression. The shooter boasts a knockout cartoony art style and anarchic sense of humor straight out of the classic Adult Swim days⁠—an

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s shows off its upcoming photo mode by going haywire with memes

Larian is still prepping for Baldur’s Gate 3’s upcoming stress test of Patch 8, which it previously announced would include cross-play support, photo mode, and 12 new subclasses. In the first community update for 2025 Larian has now shared a few additional details about what Patch 8 has in store, before showing off the photo

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Total Chaos, the full-fat remake of one of Doom’s best mods, is a getting a demo ‘very shortly’

Total Chaos First Look Trailer – PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2024 – YouTube Watch On Released in 2018, Total Chaos is regarded as one of the best Doom mods ever made—a total conversion that transforms id Software’s demon-blasting FPS into a grungy, low-fi horror adventure. Last year, creator Sam Prebble revealed Total Chaos is

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The worst Tomb Raider game is getting cut weapons, areas and voice lines restored as part of its upcoming remaster

Aspyr’s remasters of Tomb Raiders 1-3 were well received when they released last year, giving Core Design’s foundational 3D action-adventures a graphical spit ‘n’ polish and a modernised suite of controls. But for the upcoming remaster of Tomb Raiders 4-6, Aspyr is going further, bringing back several features that were cut from the final game

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Collectible card game Marvel Snap has been banned in the US alongside TikTok, but its dev says it ‘isn’t going anywhere’

(Image credit: Second Dinner) The popular free to play CCG Marvel Snap has been caught up in the United States TikTok ban, with players unable to access the game and instead met with a similar message about the takedown as on TikTok. Marvel Snap’s publisher, Nuverse, is a subsidiary of TikTok owner Bytedance, but the

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Super Mario Bros. speedrunner sets a new world record on a PC using keyboard controls and boldly proclaims they’re ‘now 0.3 seconds off of absolute perfection’

(Image credit: Niftski) The Super Mario Bros. speedrunner Niftski has achieved a new world record for the classic Nintendo title on a PC emulator, setting a time of 4:54.565 in the “any%” category. You may well be wondering why I’m bothering to include the hundredths of a second: So many talented players attempt to do